Mike Florio

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14,708 appearances 76 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 6d ago

Mike Florio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Rahimi & Grote Show · Mike Florio talks NFL & Ian Happ talks Cubs (Hour 2) · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

The presumption is you're under contract, you're getting paid, you're going to do your job. matched

That applies to anyone who's got a job. matched

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If you're not doing the job you've been paid to do, what does the employer do in order to change the status quo? matched

And if the employer takes advantage of the levers that can be used to put pressure on the player, matched

What happens next? matched

And the the biggest example of that I think matched

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Two thousand five Terrell Owens. matched

Now he played every game that year that the Eagles allowed him to play, and he averaged more than a hundred yards receiving every game that year, but he was agitating the Eagles in an effort to get traded or released and the Eagles pushed back. matched

And there's all sorts of documentation that a team needs to have in place. matched

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Ways you can find or suspend a player for conduct detrimental to the team. matched

But it all comes down to whether or not the team is willing to pick the fight with the player. matched

And what impact will that fight have on the rest of the team? matched

Is it better to just let it go because we don't want to disrupt whatever else positive is going on in the locker room? matched

It's a complicated decision that every team has to make case by case when this happens, but usually matched

player's happy with his contract and the player's healthy, the player's going to play. matched

So it creates a very strange and unusual situation for the Bears. matched

And there isn't a whole lot of precedent that you can rely on. matched

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